DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) - Crews responded to three Decatur house fires early Tuesday, a total of 10 over the past day and half. 

The first happened at 761 E. Lincoln Ave., according to firefighters. They arrived on the scene at 1:36 a.m. and found a fully involved structure. They immediately began a defensive response. 

There were no injuries in this fire, but the structure is considered a total loss. The house was vacant. 

The second was reported in the 1800 block of E. Lawrence St. Authorities responded and found a garage on fire. Two vehicles were also burning in this fire, crews said, and live wires were down arcing. 

No damage estimate is available for the Lawrence Street fire. 

In a third Tuesday fire, the back of a residence at 240 W. Johnson Ave. had flames showing. 

Responders also battled a major house fire in the 800 block of N. Edward St. late Monday night. The home was boarded up and had been unoccupied for several years. 

"The fire was in the walls for the one on Edward Street and it was just extremely labor intensive as your opening up walls and looking for fire,"said Fire Chief Jeff Abbott.

When crews arrived, they found heavy fire coming from the back of the house. Flames were quickly moving to the attic and roof areas, and crews had the fire under control in about 1 1/2 hours. 

Responders said this was the second night in a row Decatur firefighters responded to multiple fires all over the city. Chief Abbott said he's never experienced this many fires in such short of time. 

"When they start talking about busy times - it would be back in the ice storm in 2006 and it wasn't like this because you weren't going to actual working fires where you had several companies working." 

Since the State Fire Marshal is investigating, Chief Abbott said it's too soon to tell if the fires were set intentionally, but arson isn't something new to the city of Decatur. 

"I mean we have this all year long and it doesn't help the city at all to have all of these houses sitting around burnt out and it's putting people's lives at danger too and that needs to stop."

The cause of these fires is under investigation by the Office of the Illinois State Fire Marshal. If anyone has any information about the recent fires call Station 1 at 217-484-2811.